"Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him."

-- Robin McKinley

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“Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.”
“The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.”

Source : "Daughter of the revolution" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2002.
“Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privilegesâ€”to make the rich richer and the potent more powerfulâ€” the humble members of societyâ€”the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.”

Source : Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832
“History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.”

Source : Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”
“Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, one you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand.”
“I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.”
“Balance is the key to a beautifully made-up face.”
“I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.”

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